Pattern perception: integrating information presented in two modalities.
Subjects were required to organize and identify temporal patterns composed of either (i) two stimuli in one modality; (ii) two stimuli in each of two modalities, with the pattern alternately presented in the two modalities; or (iii) one stimulus in each of two modalities. Patterns (i) and (iii) are organized as structured patterns, but (ii) is organized by modality, not by pattern structure. When elements of a pattern appear in two modalities, the auditory-tactual combination produces the poorest performance.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D013649:Taste; D014796:Visual Perception